Your website has to meet WCAG 2.1 AA. We tell you exactly where it doesn't.
ClinicGuard scans your practice's website every month against the accessibility standard named in the HHS Section 504 final rule, ranks what it finds by legal exposure, and sends you a report your web developer can actually act on — so your practice gets Section 504 ready, and stays 504 compliant, well before the deadline.
No account, no card. You get the report whether or not you become a client.
The rule, in plain English
Who it applies to
Any recipient of HHS federal financial assistance — which covers hospitals, community health centers, primary care practices, and most practices that bill Medicare or Medicaid. If federal health dollars reach your practice, the rule reaches your website.
What it requires
Web content and mobile apps must conform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA. That is a specific, testable technical standard — not a vague "make it accessible" instruction. Roughly a third of it can be checked automatically, which is the part we handle for you.
When
11 May 2027 for recipients with 15 or more employees, 10 May 2028 for those with fewer, following the interim final rule of 7 May 2026 that extended both dates by a year.
What happens meanwhile
Private ADA Title III suits do not wait for that deadline. 3,117 were filed in federal court in 2025 alone, and healthcare providers are routinely named. That exposure is live today.
How it works
We scan
Every month we crawl your site's highest-risk pages — appointment booking, patient portal, contact, intake forms — and test every element against WCAG 2.1 AA.
We rank
Findings are ordered by real exposure: how severe the barrier is, how important the page is, how many elements are affected, and whether it is a failure type that shows up in filed complaints.
You get a report
A PDF written for your practice manager, with a remediation checklist and code-level fixes your web developer can work straight from. Plus a diff against last month.
Pricing for Individual Practices
Save 15% by billing annually. All plans include automated compliance reporting.
Automated Monitoring
or $990 / year (Save 15%)
- Automated monthly re-scan
- Month-over-month progress tracking
- Alerts for new WCAG failures
- Dated evidence trail for compliance
- Self-serve dashboard
Audit + Monitoring
or $3,000 / year (Save 15%)
+$1,500 initial setup fee
- Full manual WCAG 2.1 AA audit
- Risk-ranked remediation plan
- Developer handoff document
- Direct email support for developer
- Manual re-verification of fixes
Full Remediation
The "Do It For Me" service
- We fix the code for you
- Direct PRs to your repository
- Includes 12 mo. of Auto-Monitoring
- Post-remediation certification
- Zero dev resources required from you
For Networks & Agencies
Network Retainer
For large hospital networks and healthcare groups with multiple localized domains. Includes Audit + Monitoring for up to 10 separate websites, a unified executive dashboard, and a dedicated compliance account manager.
Agency Partner License
For digital marketing agencies building healthcare websites. White-label our scanning engine to run up to 20 audits a month with your own branding. Upsell compliance services to your clients while we handle the heavy lifting.
The evidence trail matters: where full remediation is not yet complete, a documented, dated record of ongoing good-faith effort is materially better than nothing at all. ClinicGuard is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
Get your free scan
We run the same audit we sell, on your homepage plus your four highest-risk pages, and email you the report. It takes about two minutes to run and we send it within one business day.
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What automated scanning can and cannot do
We would rather tell you this up front than have you discover it later. Automated tools reliably detect roughly a third of WCAG success criteria — the machine-checkable ones. Software cannot judge whether alt text is meaningful, whether keyboard focus order is logical, or whether a blind patient can actually complete a booking start to finish.
A clean automated scan is not a determination of legal compliance, and any vendor who tells you otherwise — particularly anyone selling a one-line "accessibility overlay" script — is selling you a false sense of security. Overlays have themselves been named in accessibility lawsuits. We find the defects that are there; certifying their absence takes manual testing with real assistive technology, which is what the Baseline Audit includes.
Questions
Does this apply to us if we are a small private practice?
If you receive HHS federal financial assistance — which includes billing Medicare or Medicaid — then yes, with a compliance date of May 2028 if you have fewer than 15 employees. Separately, ADA Title III exposure applies to places of public accommodation regardless of federal funding.
We just had our site redesigned. Are we fine?
Usually not. Accessibility is rarely part of a standard web design brief, and most agency-built healthcare sites we scan fail on image alt text, form labels, and colour contrast. The free scan will tell you in two minutes rather than leaving you to guess.
Can't we just install an accessibility widget?
Overlay widgets do not fix the underlying markup, and their presence has not prevented litigation — overlay vendors' own customers have been sued. Real conformance means fixing the code.
Who does the actual fixing?
Your existing web developer, working from our remediation document, which includes the specific selector and the specific fix for each finding. If you would rather we handled remediation directly, ask us for a quote.
Do you need access to our systems?
No. We test your public website exactly as a patient's browser would see it. No credentials, no plugins, no code installed on your site, and we never touch patient data.